Binge drinking

Smoking, Binge Drinking and the

Fraternity membership and binge drinking.

This paper examines the relationship that social fraternity and sorority membership has with binge drinking incidence and frequency among 18-24 year old full-time 4-year college students who participated in the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey. To net out unobserved heterogeneity, several measures of situational and total alcohol use are entered into the regressions as explanat...

Binge Drinking and Public Health

Alcohol misuse, in the form of binge drinking (BD), is prevalent among young people and seems to be a distinctive characteristic of the British drinking culture. Over the last 2 years the Government has reformed licensing laws and implemented a strategy aimed at reducing alcohol-related harm. This briefing describes the extent of BD in the UK, examines the current legislation and analyses the p...

Binge Drinking and Metabolic Syndrome

1. Im HJ, Park SM, Choi JH, Choi EJ. Binge drinking and its relation to metabolic syndrome in korean adult men. Korean J Fam Med 2014;35:173-81. 2. Lindtner C, Scherer T, Zielinski E, Filatova N, Fasshauer M, Tonks NK, et al. Binge drinking induces whole-body insulin resistance by impairing hypothalamic insulin action. Sci Transl Med 2013;5:170ra14. 3. Ling PM, Neilands TB, Glantz SA. Young adu...

Binge Drinking and Reflection Impulsivity